A long-running archaeology project, funded by the Australian Research Council, has been looking into what happened to Aboriginal men who were recruited to the Queensland Native Mounted Police, their involvement in 'the frontier wars' and the resultant trauma that impacted their lives. Read more about this story in EurekaAlert! [...]
Kooma, Murawarii and Gamilaraay Activist and Podcaster, Boe Spearim, is the guest speaker for the 2024 Myall Creek Massacre Memorial Ceremony. It will take place at on Sunday 9 June 2024 at the Myall Creek Hall next to Myall Creek Bridge between Bingara and Delungra, New South Wales. For [...]
Armidale Friends of Myall Creek have announced an event in the University of Armidale's Yarning Series on Friday, 7 June 2024. Yarning with Boe Spearim on the Frontier Wars and Black Resistance...then and now will be held at the Oorala Aboriginal Centre, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales. [...]
The annual Frontier Wars March will be held again near the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT on Anzac Day, 25 April 2024. If you are on the News page, click the headline for the poster advertising the event and for contact details.
'The British initially thought Victoria's rapid colonisation in the 1830s was illegal, and were concerned by its violence,' read Kate Ashton's article and a view a video clip from the Yoorrook Justice Commission here on ABC News, Victoria, 5 April 2024: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-05/victoria-colonisation-history-yoorrook-aboriginal-massacres/103658322 "The South Eastern Portion of Australia"; compiled [...]
Poster Kindly Supplied by Friends of Myall Creek
Appearing before the Yoorrook Justice Commission truth-telling inquiry, Suzannah Henty a sixth-generation Henty descendant, called for monuments to her family to be removed. Henty believes that the spray-painting of Henty monuments is evidence of the distress they cause to First Peoples. The inquiry opened in Victoria on Monday 25 [...]
Rachel Edwards, ABC Radio Hobart, 'Rare soldier's diary reveals secret massacre of Indigenous Tasmanians after almost 200 years,' Monday 28 December 2020. A disentegrating soldier's diary held in the National Library of Ireland (NAI) has led to the startling discovery of an undocumented massacre of First Peoples in Tasmania [...]
Peter Smith, 'After the (failed) referendum dust settles,' Pearls and Irritations, 19 March 2024: https://johnmenadue.com/after-the-failed-referendum-dust-settles/
https://australiainstitute.org.au/event/killing-for-country-by-david-marr/
